The answer is pretty much everywhere. Christie's seen double digit decreases in his share of the vote among conservative Democrats, moderate Republicans, conservative Republicans, and independents. The only meaningful voting blocs he hasn't lost much ground with are liberal and moderate Democrats, and that's largely a function of his never having had much support with those groups to begin with.
We didn't include Chris Daggett in that July poll where Christie had a 14 point lead, and if you look now at Christie's decline in those groups Daggett's share of the vote is almost equal to the difference between where Christie was in July and where Christie is now.
There's not much doubt Daggett's been bleeding Christie's support, putting Jon Corzine in position to win a surprise victory. The question now is how many of those marginal Daggett voters Christie can win back in the final three weeks.
Here's the full July to October comparison data on Christie's drop:
| Group | Christie % June | Christie % October | Daggett % |
| Lib. Dems | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| Mod. Dems | 21 | 16 | 9 |
| Cons. Dems | 51 | 37 | 16 |
| Mod. Reps | 77 | 64 | 13 |
| Cons. Reps | 94 | 79 | 13 |
| Independents | 54 | 42 | 19 |
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We can't be sure without seeing the same table for Corzine, but it looks like Daggett is doing some damage among liberal Dems, moderate Dems as well as independents. Corzine was already rather weak among independents and losing another seven percent of them can't be good.
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